Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announcing that "this is going to break your heart," Judge Samuel Joseph forbade Probation Violator Joseph Larusso, 22, to enter the Bronx on pain of going to prison for three years...
...have known for 15 years that irradiating the blood with invisible ultraviolet rays helps in some diseases, notably blood poisoning. Three years ago Drs. Valinta P. Wasson, George P. Miley and Preston M. Dunning of the New York Infirmary decided to use the technique on children with acute rheumatic heart disease. Last week they reported success in 22 consecutive cases...
There is a theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...
Died. James Monroe Smith, 60, onetime $18,000-a-year president of Louisiana State University, whose resignation in 1939 disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director...
Change of Heart. In Knoxville, Term., Alice Emert Wells, married ten times before, returned marriage license No. 11 to he county clerk's office with an explanation: "I got cold feet." In Nashville, Deputy Clerk Jimmy O'Connell reported that a man turned in his marriage license, took the refund and bought a license to marry another woman...